The folks over at Spread Firefox are trying to get themselves into the Guinness World Records, to do this they need your help. The attempt is pretty simple, All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

What is Torpark? Basically it’s a modified version of the Firefox browser that uses the TOR network.

Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously.

I must give you a little warning though.

German police seize ‘anonymizing’ Tor servers
Police block an undisclosed number of servers during a crackdown on Internet pornography, By John Blau, IDG News Service, September 11, 2006 – Infoworld

In a crackdown on Internet child pornography, German police detected several servers running a copy of Tor, a software designed to anonymize Internet usage.

“We seized or blocked an undisclosed number of servers during a raid, which is still underway,” Jens Gruhl, a spokesman for the public prosecutors office of Konstanz, Germany, said Monday. “A few of these computers had installed copies of Tor.”

Users of Tor software in the country, worried about an unexpected visit by the police, have decried the move in a flurry of blogs.

“This situation is disturbing, really disturbing,” wrote Alexander Janssen, from Düsseldorf, Germany, in a blog post. “I run a Tor server myself and the last thing I want to experience is the police kicking down my door [and] seizing my computer.”

Gruhl said German crime officials are not specifically searching for servers running Tor but for servers distributing child porn. “That fact that police discovered copies of Tor is coincidental, not intentional.”

In his blog, Janssen reckoned that the seized servers were configured to be so-called Tor “exit nodes,” allowing their IP (Internet Protocol) addresses to show up in the server logfiles in question.

Tor was created to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that “threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships and state security,” according to the Web site www.torproject.org.

The software bounces communications around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers, protecting users from Web sites that build profiles of their interests, local eavesdroppers that read data or learn what sites they visit, and even the onion routers themselves.